ARTSEDGE Standards:


Grade 9-12, Visual Arts Standard 1


Content Standard
Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

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Achievement Standard

Proficient:
  • Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks
  • Students conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use
Advanced:
  • Students communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium
  • Students initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation


Grade 9-12, Visual Arts Standard 2


Content Standard
Using knowledge of structures and functions

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Achievement Standard

Proficient:
  • Students demonstrate the ability to form and defend judgments about the characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art
  • Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions
  • Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems
Advanced:
  • Students demonstrate the ability to compare two or more perspectives about the use of organizational principles and functions in artwork and to defend personal evaluations of these perspectives
  • Students create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions




Grade 9-12, Visual Arts Standard 4


Content Standard
Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures

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Achievement Standard

Proficient:
  • Students differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art
  • Students describe the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places
  • Students analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using such conclusions to inform their own art making
Advanced:
  • Students analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, purposes, and critical models, showing understanding of the work of critics, historians, aestheticians, and artists
  • Students analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across time and among cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations of meaning


Grade 9-12, Visual Arts Standard 5


Content Standard
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others

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Achievement Standard

Proficient:
  • Students identify intentions of those creating artworks, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of purposes in particular works
  • Students describe meanings of artworks by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts
  • Students reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art
Advanced:
  • Students correlate responses to works of visual art with various techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions




NJCCCS Standards:

1.1 The Creative Process: All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.3 Performance: All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies: All students will demonstrate and apply an understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.